So its a boy, right? a neighbour calls out as Kathy Witterick walks by, her four month old baby, Storm, strapped to her chest in a carrier.

Witterick smiles,comments on the sunny spring day, and keeps walking.

Shes used to it. The neighbours know Witterick and her husband, David Stocker, are raising a genderless baby. But they dont pretend to understand it.

Witterick and Stocker believe they are giving their children the freedom to choose who they want to be, unconstrained by social norms about males and females.

What we noticed is that parents make so many choices for their children. Its obnoxious, says Stocker.

The boys are encouraged to challenge how theyre expected to look and act based on their sex.

In fact, in not telling the gender of my precious baby, I am saying to the world, Please can you just let Storm discover for him/herself what s (he) wants to be?!

When asked what psychological harm, if any, could come from keeping the sex of a child secret, Zucker said: One will find out.

The couple plan to keep Storms sex a secret as long as Storm, Kio and Jazz are comfortable with it. In the meantime, philosophy and reality continue to collide.

There are questions about which bathroom Storm will use, but that is a couple of years off. Then there is the tyranny of pronouns, as they call it. They considered referring to Storm as Z. Witterick now calls the baby she, imagining the s in brackets.

For the moment, it feels right.

Everyone keeps asking us, When will this end? says Witterick. And we always turn the question back. Yeah, when will this end? When will we live in a world where people can make choices to be whoever they are?

I notice the article says they vacationed in Cuba, and spent time there learning about the revolution. And they spent time in Mexico with some rebel groups who had been fighting the government there.

The mom and dad have different last names, so that right there tips us off that they are liberal radical types, having to make that particular political statement.

Yep, all of society, and every culture on earth, is wrong about gender roles, gender norms, all of that. Only these 2 liberal parents know what is best for the world. (sarcasm)

What is better for the kids? Being raised genderless in a world in which male and female are universal constants, AND, always having to fight to explain things to the rest of the unenlightened world which has no clue what you are doing or why you are doing it? Or is it better to conform to societal expectations so that the rest of your life runs more smoothly?

I guess radical liberal types want to fight with everybody, every day, about how enlightened they are, rather than conform.

It would be intersting to test these parents in some ways. For example, what if I want the wife for myself? What if I want their house and all their personal belongings, because I think the social norm of private property, home ownership, the status of their marriage, etc. is simply a social construct which doesn’t allow us to really express our true feelings. What would their reactions be to something like that? Would they excuse that because of someone else expressing themselves, or would they fall back on social norms regarding those issues?

nature vs nurture lol nature always wins. Cultural norms change, think about the pics of Churchill when he was a toddler.. he was dressed as a toddler, but at first glance using todays lense, most would believe he was a girl.

As much as these parents would like to think they are raising a gender neutral child... it simply can’t be done. Costuming does not equate gender.

At this point the state has an interest in the abuse of thic child by parents who obviously are psycho. Everything about this story is icky to the point where I want to bathe from having read what disgusting feel-good liberalism actually does.

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posted on 05/22/2011 9:57:57 AM PDT
by ICE-FLYER
(God bless and keep the United States of America)

I have, over the years, as manager or co-worker dealt with the adult children of hippies. They are screwed-up in countless ways. Worse, they have no model by which to raise their own children so this cultural abuse gets handed down. Drug and alcohol abuse is rampant. Ive had several tell me that theyd get treats like getting to smoke the roaches for finishing their homework. In some cases their parents loved to get high with them and bond. In other cases, the parents would tell the kids not to smoke while sucking down the last of a water-pipe; or drinking the pipes water.

These, for the most part, are seriously dysfunctional people.

I have on every occasion possible suggested to the hippie grandchildren that joining the Marines might add to their life diversity. The suggestion has been universally met with horror.

I recently read in an FR posted article that in Europe children as young as 12 were getting government paid sex changes. Children try so hard to live up to (or down to) the expectation of their care givers I cant help but think their care givers are like these people. They laud politically correct actions so much, the children, not even realizing what theyre doing, are playing their gender game. They will be permanently ruined.

I went to college and majored in social work with the intention of working with abused and neglected children. The problem was, I felt the best way to deal with abusive parents was to beat the living hell out of them so they really know what that child has experienced. Unfortunatly, that treatment option is frowned upon. I still think that is the best way to deal with abusive parents and these two wackos should get immediate treatment.

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posted on 05/22/2011 10:50:51 AM PDT
by madamemayhem
(defeat is not getting knocked down, it is not getting back up.)

Children are not adults, which is why those “obnoxious” parents have to make decisions for them until they’re old enough to take care of themselves. And you can’t get around the fact that DNA assigns everyone a sex no matter how much you deny it.

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